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    Morning Briefing for January 10, 2011

    RedState Morning Briefing January 6, 2012 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. In Conclusion 2. The Choice 3. The 2012 Election and the ‘Inevitable’ Mitt Romney 4. Who are the Democratic gun-grabbers in the US Senate? Let’s find out! 5. Why is Ron Paul allowed to Continue Participating in Debates?

    What a Big Government Conservative Looks Like

    I’m rather tired of all the people who don’t like Romney trying to claim Rick Santorum is not a big government conservative, or not a pro-life statist.  I would support him before I would support Romney too, but I have no intention of giving up ideological and intellectual consistency in the name of beating Mitt Romney. Rick Santorum is a pro-life statist.  He is.  You | Read More »

    Morning Briefing for January 9, 2011

    RedState Morning Briefing January 6, 2012 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. What a Big Government Conservative Looks Like 2. Politics As Entertainment, Endless GOP Debates Edition 3. The Late Term Abortion of a Conservative Resurgence 4. Mitt Romney Got Arrested 5. The Biggest Mistake of the Worst Debate 6. Vast Majority of ObamaCare Waivers Go To Union | Read More »

    Where I Stand: Perry, Gingrich, and None of the Above

    I will support the Republican nominee for President. But until we have that nominee, I will not support Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. Had Rick Santorum been up for election in 2010 instead of suffering the largest margin of defeat of any candidate in 2006, I have no doubt he would be one of the Republicans primaried by the tea party. He routinely voted for | Read More »

    Mitt Romney Got Arrested

    It is such a silly thing, but it plays right into the left-wing attack on Mitt as an out of touch elitist. All the way back to 1981, Mitt Romney got arrested. It was no big deal. Romney‘s arrest came in June 1981 when he proceeded to launch his motorboat at Wayland’s Lake Cochituate only moments after a park police officer had told him not | Read More »

    The Mental Derangement of Ron Paul’s Campaign

    Supporters of Ron Paul produced a hit job on Jon Huntsman attacking Huntsman over his adopted daughter. His daughter, ftom China, was left for dead in a market and the Huntsmans intervened, got her back to good health, and adopted her. Someone put up a video attacking Huntsman adoption as proof that Huntsman is a foreign agent. The video began circulating among Ron Paul supporters | Read More »

    Not Romney

    In an RedState exclusive, we’ve obtained a copy of the latest salvo in the GOP 2012 Presidential primary — “Not Romney“. The Gingrich campaign is leading the way, staying true to Newt Gingrich’s view of an alliance shaping up. I hear other campaigns and possibly some outside groups will join in. But this is the first salvo, a flier to be released by the Gingrich | Read More »

    What A Big Government Conservative Looks Like

    I’m rather tired of all the people who don’t like Romney trying to claim Rick Santorum is not a big government conservative, or not a pro-life statist.  I would support him before I would support Romney too, but I have no intention of giving up ideological and intellectual consistency in the name of beating Mitt Romney. Rick Santorum is a pro-life statist.  He is.  You | Read More »

    On the Perry Campaign Shake Up

    The window is closing for an effective, public shake up of the Perry campaign. What should have happened in the last 48 hours stretches on to the weekend news cycle. I’m a firm believer that the shake up needs to be public and fill the campaign with new blood at the top of the campaign. I have no doubt the campaign hesitates because it only | Read More »

    Morning Briefing for January 6, 2012

    RedState Morning Briefing January 6, 2012 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. From Governor Rick Perry: Stop Insider Trading Dead In Its Tracks 2. Nancy Pelosi: It Was Very Bold and Encouraging When Barack Obama Ran Roughshod Over My Branch of Government 3. ‘Leaner, Agile, and More Flexible’: Are Obama and Panetta Setting Out to Create the Military | Read More »

    Another Awkward Rick Santorum Vote

    On February 14, 2002, Democratic Senators Joe Biden, John Edwards, Diane Feinstein, Ron Wyden, Robert Torricelli, and Chris Dodd amongs joined with every single Republican in the Senate including Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Lincoln Chaffee, and the rest to kill a measure that would have given felons, including rapists, drug traffickers, and arsonists, the right to vote. The measure failed 63 to 31. But while | Read More »

    The biggest news of the day for Mitt Romney

    With Iowa now under his belt there is some monumentally big news for Mitt Romney that no one has really noted yet today. Allow me to congratulate him. For the first time since November of 2010, Mitt Romney has broken through the 25.5% ceiling that has been his maximum share of support in the Real Clear Politics polling average. This is pretty significant as he | Read More »

    Newt Gingrich Shows He Can Throw a Directed Punch

    The fear is that Newt Gingrich can not throw a targeted punch at Mitt Romney, that he is only capable of a crazy melee. Today, Gingrich is proving his critics wrong. One of the biggest knocks on Romney is his timidity in the face of Barack Obama. He won’t use the word “socialist,” etc. He won’t be bold with his own plans, etc. Well, Gingrich | Read More »

    Morning Briefing for January 5, 2012

    RedState Morning Briefing January 5, 2012 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. A Blatant, Frontal Assault on the Constitutional Separation of Powers 2. Can Rick Perry Come Back? 3. This Won’t Play Well In South Carolina 4. Gas Reaches Record High as Gas Hits Record Low 5. I was right and the polls were wrong about Ron Paul | Read More »

    This Won’t Play Well In South Carolina

    Rick Santorum has some pent up issues with Jim DeMint. Just a few weeks before DeMint stood for re-election on South Carolina’s ballot, Rick Santorum showed up in DeMint’s neighborood to tell everyone Jim DeMint was wrong on earmarks. “Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania said the Constitution gives Congress control of the purse strings and that he supported earmarks for port deepening while | Read More »